EXPLORE 5°27 1. Everlasting tales "Your Silver Shoes will carry you over the desert," replied Glinda. "If you had known their power you could have gone back to your Aunt Em the very first day you came to this country." "But then I should not have had my wonderful brains!" cried the Scarecrow. "I might have passed my whole life in the farmer's cornfield." "And I should not have had my lovely heart," said the Tin Woodman. "I might have stood and rusted in the forest till the end of the world." [...] "This is all true," said Dorothy, "and I'm glad I was of use to these good friends. But now that each of them has had what he most desired, and each is happy 10 in having a kingdom to rule beside, I think I should like to go back to Kansas." "The Silver Shoes," said the Good Witch, "have wonderful powers. And one of the most curious things about them is that they can carry you to any place in the world in three steps, and each step 15 will be made in the wink of an eye. All you have to do is to knock the heels' together three times and command the shoes to carry you wherever you wish to go." "If that is so," said the child joyfully, "I will 20 ask them to carry me back to Kansas at once." She threw her arms around the Lion's neck and kissed him, patting his big head tenderly. Then she kissed the Tin Woodman, who was weeping in a way most dangerous to his joints. But she 25 hugged the soft, stuffed body of the Scarecrow in her arms instead of kissing his painted face, and found she was crying herself at this sorrowful parting from her loving comrades. [...] Dorothy now took Toto up solemnly in her 30 arms, and having said one last good-bye she clapped the heels of her shoes together three times, saying: "Take me home to Aunt Em!" L. Frank BAUM, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, 1900 The CULTURE SPOT The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a famous American children's novel, which was written by L. Frank Baum in 1900 and adapted for the cinema in 1939. Readers follow Dorothy on her quest from Oz to Kansas. Wizard 02 Crank Boun 1. épouvantail 2. rouiller 3. talons 4. caresser 5. very sad e. Dorothy's dog
a. Read the text and identify the characters. Then say how the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman have changed.

b. Explain the role of the silver shoes. What does Dorothy wish now?
c. Explain what makes Dorothy happy.

d. GRAMMAR Observe the last sentence. Why do you think the writer used direct speech? ​